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WASHINGTON 



BOARD OF TRADE 
1899 



Illustrations Copyrighted by J. H. Harper 

Washington, D. C. 
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Thos. \V. Cadick 

Printer. 

219 G Street N. W. 



WASHINGTON 

ITS DESIRABILITY AS A PLACE OF 

RESIDENCE 

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A WASHINGTON HOME 



AMONG the cities where commerce reigns and manufactures hold sway there is keen 
competition. There is only one National Capital. Though a score of communities 
scramble for such local distinction as may be extracted from the self-applied term 
"metropolis," there is only one center of government of the United States. By din and 
roar and rattle and smoke hundreds of towns deservedly achieve rank in the realm of 
industry. There is only one incomparable residence city in the United States. That is the 
city of Washington ; the city that charms men and delights women at all seasons of the 
year. 






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VyASHlNGTON'S GOVERNMENT is not of the so-called popular torm, but it comes 
nearer to being popular with all the parties directly concerned than any other variety 
of municipal government operating in this country at this time. Three Commissioners are 
appointed by the President of the United States. These Commissioners — frequently 
termed the "triumvirate" by those who would prefer other Commissioners — frame estimates 
for the municipal sustenance of the District of Columbia, urge Congress to permit the 
District of Columbia to spend the money which the District raises through taxation, and 
then, when appropriations are made, see that they are properly disbursed. The 
Commissioners are generally men of prominence — one of them is required by Government 
the law to be an officer in the Corps of Engineers of the Army— and it is 
superfluous to add that they are scrupulously honest. As a consequence, all moneys are 
expended as the law directs and without the discounting intervention of a Board of 
Aldermen and a Common Council. The novelty of this condition must appeal strongly to 
persons who have resided in cities where taxpayers' contributions are regarded as legitimate 
spoils for the city's fathers and their friends. The idea that the people of the District of 
Columbia get a dollar's worth of material and work for a dollar must be extremely 
fascinating to the plucked American who has breathed the atmosphere of municipal care- 




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lessness, not to say corruption. So it comes to pass that, even with insufficient appropria- 
tions, Washington is the most delightful of American cities because it is the best governed ; 
because its municipal administration is unmunicipally business-like and completely devoid 
of dishonesty's taint. 

One of the important things not generally understood by the public at large is the 
peculiar relationship existing between the General Government and the other tax- paying 
residents of the District of Columbia. That relation should be of interest to every 
American. There is an impression abroad in the land— frequently evident in Congress— 
"that Washingtonians are mendicants, dependent upon the national bounty, untaxed or 
lightly taxed, and draining, vampire-like, the life-blood of every Congressman's tax- 
burdened constituents." If such an impression had any foundation in fact, Washington's 
growth would soon reach phenomenal proportions. The human desire to get as much as 
possible for nothing would give the District a population of more than a million within 
a decade. The truth is that Washingtonians pay their share of all bills and are not 
indebted in any way either to the General Government or to the component parts thereof 
which are located without the limits of the District of Columbia. 




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In June, 1783, Congress was in session at Philadelphia. Some of the Revolutionary 
soldiers had grievances, and they threateningly organized and marched toward the then 
seat of Government. Both the State and local authorities confessed themselves unable to 
■ control the invaders, so Congress fled precipitately. Thus was the necessity of a truly 
National Capital driven home, and as the result came the Constitutional provision which 
led to the cession of territory, ten miles square, by Maryland and Virginia — the District 
of Columbia — the site of what President Washington called the Federal City, which, \n 
1800, became the seat of Government. 

In all the original city site there were 6,111 acres. The original owners donated to 
the United States for streets and alleys 3,606 acres, and 982 additional acres, divided into 
10,136 building lots. The United States then purchased for its own uses 541 acres more, 
its total holding amounting then to 5,129 acres. All that the original owners 

Given to 

received were 982 acres, sub-divided into 10,136 lots. It was provided that the 

the 541 acres purchased for public building sites and reservations should be 
paid for out of the first proceeds of the lots donated to the Government. This was done ; 
so the Government did not pay even one cent for the vast quantity of soil it owns in the 
District of Columbia. 





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In a recently published pamphlet on the " Finances of the National Capital Part- 
nership," President Theodore W. Noyes, of the Board of Trade, sketches briefly the 
conditions which prevailed, from the initial agreements as to maintenance, until I878. 

" The original owners of Washington," says Mr. Noyes, " donated five-sevenths of 
the city's soil and yielded the right of self-government to the Nation on the understanding 
and implied agreement that the Nation was to build up here a magnificent capital, at its 
own expense, reimbursing itself in part from the proceeds of the sale of the donated lots. 
A pretentious city was planned, and lots were sold by the Government on the ^ 

The City 

strength of this understanding. Patrick Henry complained that the residents of 

of the District might, under the arrangement, ' enjoy exclusive emoluments to 
the great injury of the rest of the people,' and pamphlet protest was entered against 
Congress meeting all the needs of the capital, on the ground that the independence and 
self-respect of its citizens would be degraded. It was from the beginning, in theory at 
least, the city of the Nation, and not the city of its residents, and the primary responsi- 
bility for its development has always been in equity upon the Nation, and the residents, 
who have no voice in the disposition of the money exacted from them, are the incidental 
contributors. 




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" In spite of this conceded relation of Nation and capital, the local tax-payers of 
the District for three-fourths of a century were compelled to assume practically the entire 
burden of capital-making, the Nation violating and neglecting the obligations which it had 
incurred. In I878 the amount of the contributions of the resident tax-payers toward the 
expenses of the capital were fixed by law at one-half the total amount, the Nation tardily 
and inadequately fulfilling its original agreement." 

Investors contemplating the District of Columbia will probably be interested in the 
recent growth of improved real estate. The report of the Board of Assessors 
for the last fiscal year shows that the assessed value of new buildings erected Growth 

during that period amounted to nearly two millions of dollars. The total tax 
assessment of the city of Washington, according to the Eleventh Census, was in excess of 
one hundred and twenty-three millions. 

Countless shade trees and scores of miles of broad asphalted streets would of them- 
selves make Washington worthy a visit, but they are only two of the many items which 
go to make up the sum total of urban desirability. Scattered liberally throughout the 
length and breadth of the city are parks (ofllcially known as government reservations). 
Some of these parks are merely grass-planted triangles, which contribute to the fascinating 





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geometrical design wiiich caused it to be said tliat " Washington was modeled after Ver- 
sailles and Versailles from a spider's web." Others are great squares or circles where 
streets and avenues converge ; a setting of emerald for choice plants and flowers, and 
frequently sites for statues of soldiers, sailors and statesmen. Still others cover extensive 
territory. Rock Creek Park contains more than eighteen hundred acres; the Zoological 
Park has nearly two hundred acres ; the Mall stretches from the Capitol to the 
Potomac By-and-by there will be another great park. For years man and Parks 
machinery have toiled to change the once-noisome and pestilential river-marshes 
into a pleasure ground, and the bulk of the work has been done. Inclosed within 
a strong sea-wall the old river-bed has been transformed into tree-growing soil until there 
is a vast expanse of high dry ground which in the near future will be placed in the 
keeping of landscape gardeners to the end that the public may be pleased, edified and 
physically bettered. 

Suburban Washington is extremely beautiful. It is beautiful even when compared 
with the city. It abounds in feasts of landscape, in highland sites and woodland retreats, 
in superb drives, crystal streams, fine travel facilities and the best of good society. From 
the swift-flowing and disturbed Potomac on the west, over the hills and valleys of the 




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north and east, around to the now broader and more majestic river on the south, 
there' is a continuous chain of subdivisions within the links of which the new- 
comer may find enough of picturesque variety to puzzle him when he desires to make 
choice. Here is an attractive field for the investor. Washington's growth is no longer a 
matter of surmise. 

Diversity of architecture is one of the reasons why Washington is such a desirable 
place of residence. 

Years ago many cities became enamored of certain styles of architecture, and it 
seemed almost impossible for any considerable number of people to depart from the designs 
which pleased their fathers and grandfathers. There has never been any such formalism in 
Washington. No long rows of undistinguishable houses precisely afike in 
every external and internal detail, and monotonous at all times, destroy Wash- Architecture 
ington's claim to municipal individuality. Architectural independence is the rule 
and it has worked admirably. Instead of wearisome lanes of red bricks, white doorsteps 
and green blinds are the esthetic products of modern brains and sympathetic hands. This 
quality is by no means confined to the great mansions; in fact, it is more common in the 
less pretentious homes. Household art is a notable Washington characteristic. 




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There can be no question as to the street railroad facilities of the Capital. Only a few 
years ago horses furnished the motive power. Then came cable on the lines of two com- 
panies. Now every road in the city either is or is about to be operated by underground elec- 
tric current— the safest, the most modern, the most economical and the most satis- 
factory of all motor-devices yet applied to the problem of urban rapid transit. The ^P»<^, 

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deadly and disfiguring overhead wires and the unsightly and obstructive poles which Transit, 
are outrageously common in so many other cities do not exist in Washington ; all 
the current being conveyed in conduits between and beneath the tracks. Car equipments are 
of the newest patterns, and cleanliness is the rule. Since all of the local roads, save one, have 
passed into the hands of a syndicate, which is now operating them in one system, the transfer 
facilities have so increased as to make possible very long rides for single fares; and single fares in 
Washington do not amount to as much as they generally do elsewhere. Instead of the 
nickel is the ticket ; six of the tickets— good on all local roads— being procurable for twenty- 
five cents. 

Mention of overhead wires brings to mind the fact that Washington is smgularly 
free from those nuisances. As a result of a steadily-urged crusade there is legislation 
which forbids the stringing of any additional wires on street poles, and compels the sub- 




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stitution of the conduit tor the method common in less advanced communities. By-and- 
by all the telephone, telegraph and electric light wires will be safely stowed away under- 
ground, out of the way of the Fire Department, and beyond the reach of expensive 
atmospheric disturbances and the curious public with its tendency to handle "live" wires. 

Some figures are confusing. Some are untruthful. Some are unattractive. The 
vital statistics of the National Capital are clear, accurate and gratifying. With a total 
population closely approximating three hundred thousand, in I898 the white death- 
rate was 15.53 per thousand inhabitants, the number of that class being nearly two hun- 
dred thousand. The colored residents of the District of Columbia numbered then some- 
thing like ninety thousand and their death-rate was 27.51. The whole death-rate was 
19.32. Small as the rate is— swollen, however, by the much larger mortality 
of the /ilgro— it lessens steadily. Twenty-four years ago the white death-rate Healtlu 
was 19.54, while the colored mortality was represented by 40.78. Since that 
time medical science and education have wrought wonders; not spasmodically, but con- 
tinuously and solidly. Shallow wells have been filled up, marshes drained and streets 
cleaned, water-supply increased, milk carefully inspected, food adulterations sought and 
located, surface drainage stopped and sanitation taught. Countless efiforts to defend the 




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public from itself and its hardly less active enemies have brought forth marvelous results. 
A vigilant and efficient Health Department has so taken advantage of the broad highways 
and the natural sanitary conditions as to render the inhabitants proof against any scare 
of an epidemic. In no other city in the country is there less chance for the spreading 
abroad of any plague-like affliction. 

A common community weakness is boastfulness as to the local climate. Wash- 
ington does not boast of its climate, but it extracts a great deal of quiet satisfaction from 
the fact that in the summer it is much cooler than are many cities to the north of it. 
Southern breezes of which so many centres of population complain during the summer 
season reach Washington cooled by a thousand miles of intimacy with the Atlantic Ocean 
and more than two hundred miles of close communion with the Chesapeake and the 
Potomac. Even when the days are really hot, the sun's heat has not that deadly effect- 
iveness which is common in more northern cities. The local record of sun- 
strokes and heat prostrations shows almost entire immunity from fatal cases; Climate 
a record which contrasts strongly with that made in the densely inhabited and 
narrow streets of such cities as New York, for instance. There have been times, too, 
when Washington has luxuriated in warmth while regions much nearer the equator have 




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shivered in the clasp of the Ice King. There is probably no place in all the eastern 
portion of the United States where the temperature is more nearly equable than in the 
District of Columbia. Many invalids come to Washington during the fall and remain 
until it is time to visit the mountains or the seashore. The fact that Washington is 
situated in the great fruit-growing belt is proof conclusive as to the mildness of its climate. 
As an educational center Washington has many advantages over other American 
cities. One in every five hundred of its inhabitants is a scientist of more than local repute. 
Nowhere in all the Western Hemisphere can there be found such a vast amount of educa- 
tional material. Here is the only place where the study of the government of the great 
republic is possible. Here is the machinery which accomplishes so much. Here, 
all the year round, the executive branch puts in operation the plans committed Education 
to its keeping by that body which directly represents the people. Years might 
profitably be spent by students in observing the methods of presidents, cabinet officers, chiefs 
of bureaus, clerks and even the holders of humbler positions. Here Congress meets and 
affords ample opportunity for the careful investigator into our legislative methods. Hither 
come the politicians, the seekers after office, the manipulators of the " pulls," the statesmen 
without visible means of support, the claimants, the men who hope to be but never are. 




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Object lessons, however, are not the only lessons taught in Washington. Here is 
the great Library of Congress, housed in a magnificent structure the decorations of which 
are the admiration of the art world ; a library that seems now to lack little of comparative 
completeness. Here are the government departments, each rich in material for study. Here 
is the Smithsonian Institution and National Museum. Here is the Corcoran Gallery of Art, 
a great collection splendidly sheltered. Here are universities and colleges and schools in 
profusion. A public library, only recently established, will soon, it is hoped, be sufficiently 
developed to supply the literary demands of this more than ordinarily intelligent com- 
munity. The building in which this library is to have its home promises to be a notable 
contribution to architectural Washington. The best thought of thoroughly capable minds 
will find expression in the expenditure of the modest sum of money available for the 
creation of this much-needed structure. 

Quality, good quality, is one of the features of Washington's police force. Physical 
and mental fitness are striven for and in most instances are secured. Cleanliness and 
correct deportment are insisted upon. For years Congress has been negligent as to the 
numerical strength of the organization, but recently there has been conservative increase 
and there is promise of additional men in the near future. Fortunately the city has never 



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suflfered seriously because of the shortage, for Washington is law-abiding. Here and there 
is individual turbulence, of course, but it is calmness itself when compared with the noisy 
demonstrations too frequently in evidence in other American cities. 

A mob in Washington is almost an impossibility. If, however, one were possible 
here, it would not be able to work any material injury except to itself. The police force, 
a brigade of the National Guard, and the garrisons at Fort Myer, Washington Barracks, 
Fort Washington, Fort Hunt and the Marine Barracks would preserve the city's peace 
without much difficulty. 

Probably no other city in the United States has such a low percentage of fire losses 
as Washington. An excellent fire department, which can be and is being 
modernized and improved, assisted by the broad smooth streets, responds Public Safety 
very rapidly to all alarms and does its work promptly and well. There is 
no great stream of traffic to be stemmed or diverted ; comparatively few overhead wires to 
interfere with the fire-fighters ; no lack of the essential extinguishing fluid. 

Washington has strong social tendencies, and these, combined with the refined 
cosmopolitan character of Washington's population, add largely to the city's attractiveness 
as a place of residence. Here may be found the best representatives of European, Asiatic 






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and American civilization; some of them prominent in the ofTicial world, others conspicuous 
in business affairs, still others intent only on enjoying the fruits of their toil and the 
remnant of their days. 

OfTicial Washington is notable. While Congress is m session there cannot possibly 
be complaint of dullness. There are banquets at the Executive Mansion; 
Presidential receptions to the Supreme Court, the Diplomatic Corps, the Houses Society 
of Congress, the Army and Navy, and the general public; weekly receptions by 
members of the Cabinet; Diplomatic Corps "at homes;" dinners galore; all the varieties 
of teas; theatre parties without number; and a judicious sprinkling of opportunities to be 
at once fashionable and charitable. 

It should be understood, however, that Washington society is not wholly official nor 
is it altogether open to the possessor of any place in the Blue Book. Non-official Wash- 
ington has a social circle in which may be found many delightful people whose qualities 
are solid and endurmg ; the best elements of all social life and worthy representatives of 
the men and women who have made the city what it is— a Capital of which the Nation 
is justly proud. 




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Two hundred and seventy years ago Henry Fleet, an English fur-trader, explored 
the Potomac and the adjacent country. Of the territory on which is now the Nation's 
Capital he wrote : " This place is without question the most healthful and pleasant in all 
this country and the most convenient for habitation ; the air temperate in summer and 
not violent in winter. The river aboundeth in all manner of fish, and for deer, buffaloes, 
bears and turkeys, the woods do swarm with them, and the soil is exceedingly 
fertile." The buffalo (except in the "Zoo") has vanished, of course, and there Sports 
is scarcity of deer, bear and turkey, but the Potomac and its tributaries yet boast 
an abundance of fish and the sportsman has many opportunities. Deer and bear and 
turkey still exist in Virginia; adjacent Virginia and Maryland are rich in small game, 
while the streams are well stocked with trout and bass.. 

Athletic exercises here find a comfortable home. It is estimated that fifty thousand 
bicycles are propelled over the smoothest of streets ; sailboats, rowboats, canoes, steam and 
naphtha launches and yachts disturb the bosom of the Potomac day and night ; cricket and 
croquet have their votaries; the national game is played by professionals and amateurs; 
gymnasiums are well patronized, while golf numbers its victims by rapidly- increasing 
hundreds. 




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Washington is well equipped with places of rational amusement. There are first- 
class theaters and second-class theaters and even third-class theaters. In the 
summer time there are continuous trolley excursions to glens and groves Amusement» 
and lakes ; river excursions many times a day ; railroad trips to fresh, brackish 
or salt water; and gardens devoted mainly to the sale of liquors which in certain seasons 
of the year are supposed to have cooling properties. 

Light manufacturing could not find a more congenial home than in or in the imme- 
diate vicinity of the District of Columbia. At this time the enormous water-power of the 
Potomac is unused, but the day of such extravagant and inexcusable wastefulness is rapidly 
passing. A company is now planning to convert into electrical force the 
rushing torrents of the river at Great Falls and to convey that same force Business Project* 
into the city for illuminating and propulsive purposes. That breach will 
probably result in the downfall of the wall which has until now shut out the industrious 
who have long grieved at their inability to turn to money-making use the hundreds of 
sites available for the less objectionable varieties of manufactures. There is a big local 
market for almost any kind of a factory product. Coal is brought directly by canal from 




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the mines in the Cumberland district, and there is ample rail and river transportation. 
Wholesale stores in almost any line could be established with a certainty of profits. 

Steam communication with the north, south, east and west is maintained by the 
Pennsylvania Railroad, the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, the Chesapeake and Ohio Rail- 
road, and the Southern Railroad. 

Electric roads operate as far south as Alexandria, Virginia, and north to Rockville, 
Maryland. All the prominent suburbs are electrically connected with the city. 

Steamboat service is constant. Three of the finest of river boats 
are run between Washington and Fortress Monroe, Norfolk, and Newport Communicition 
News. Other good boats run to Mount Vernon, Marshall Hall, River 
View, Glymont, Chapel Point, Colonial Beach, Piney Point, all the other Potomac landings 
in Maryland and Virginia, and up the Chesapeake to Baltimore. 

For ten years the Washington Board of Trade has engaged in "the consideration of, 
and action upon, matters concerning the commerce, prosperity, and advancement of the 
material interests of the National Capital and the dissemination of informa- 
tion relating thereto." Results prove the achievement of gratifying success in The Board of 
the principal work of the Board — the encouragement of public improvements. 




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Representatives of the Board have appeared before the proper Congressional Committees 
in behalf of the plans necessary to the welfare and beautifying of the National Capital 
and have accomplished very much, Congressmen recognizing their representative character 
and approving their conservatively liberal ideas. 

In all matters of which it takes cognizance the Board is wholly unselfish ; its only 
aim is the betterment of Washington. 

Washington's future is assured. The day of doubtings, of fears, and of little things, 
has departed forever. President Noyes put that very happily when he said : " The ward 
of the nation will never again be starved and ill-treated by its guardian, once contemptuous, 
now grown proud and affectionate. In the present partnership of nation and 
nation's city the former has indorsed the latter's promise to prosper as well Futur7* 

as to pay. The swelling prospects of other places that attract men may 
collapse, mineral deposits may fail, tariff changes may ruin the business of a manufactur- 
ing town, fickle commerce may flow in other channels, but the fortunes of the republic 
and its capital are inseparably interwoven, and, while the states of the Union endure and 
flourish, Washington as the nation's city will show forth the republic in miniature, re- 
sponding in its own growth to the national development and prosperity." 




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OFFICERS, DIRECTORS AND COMMITTEES OF THE WASHINGTON 

BOARD OF TRADE. 

THEODORE W. NOYES, President. 
CHARLES J. BELL, ist yice-President. JOHN JOY EDSON, 2d yice-Presideitt. 

R. ROSS PERRY, General Counsel. JAMES W. SOMERVILLE, Treasurer. 

GEO. H. HARRIES, Secretary. 



DIRECTORS. 



Clurles B. Church 
George T. Dunlop 
Frank. Hume 
Isadore Saks 
James W. Somerville 
Charles J. Bell 
Henry F. Blount 
William V. Cox 



Frederic L. Moore 
Theodore W. Noyes 
Henry L. Biscoe 
John Joy Edson 
Abram P. Fardon 
Archibald Greenlees 
Tallmadge A. Lambert 
Thomas W. Smith 



W. S. Thompson 
George Truesdell 
Beriah Wilkins 
S. W. Woodward 
R. Ross Perry 
Albert M. Read 
Bramard H. Warner 



John B. Wight 
Watson J. Newton 
Crosby S. Noyes 
Myron M. Parker 
Ellis Spear 
George H. Harries 
James B. Lambie 



EXECUTIVE. 

Samuel Ross, Chairman. 

COMMERCE AND MANUFACTURES. 

Ward Tlioron, Chairman. 
MERCANTILE INTERESTS. 

Isadore Sales, Chairman. 
PUBLIC HEALTH. 

Dr.W. W. Johnston, Chairman. 
PUBLIC SCHOOLS, 

Abram P. Fardon, Chairman. 
SEWERAGE, 

Albert M. Read, Chairman. 
TRANSPORTATION. 

James W. Somerville, Chairman. 



STANDING COMMITTEES. 

BRIDGES. 

R Ross Perry, Chairman. 
INSURANCE. 

W. J. Newton, Chairman. 
PARKS AND RESERVATIONS. 

Henry F. Blount, Chairman. 

PUBLIC LIBRARY, 

J. W. Babson, Chairman. 

RAILROADS. 

Frank Hume, Chairman. 

STREETS AND AVENUES. 

Myron M. Parker, Chairman. 
UNIVERSITIES. 

W. H. Singleton, Chairman. 



SPECIAL COMMITTEES. 



CHARITIES AND CORRECTIONS. 

Bernard T. Janney, Chairman. 
MEMBERSHIP. 

Wm. p. Van Wickle, Chairman. 

PUBLIC BUILDINGS. 

B. H. Warner, Chairman 
PUBLIC ORDER. 

A. M. Lothrop, Chairman. 

RIVER AND HARBOR IMPROVE.MENT. 

Thomas W. Smith, Chairman. 
TAXATION AND ASSESSMENT. 

John Joy Edson, Cliairman. 
WATER SUPPLY. 

Archibald Greenlees, Chairman. 



ON HANDBOOK. ON HIGHWAY ACT. ON HIGHWAY LEGISLATION. 

T. A. Lambert, Chairman. R. Ross Perry, Chairman. Theodore W. Noyes, Chairman 

ON BOARD MEETINGS. ON CODIFICATION OF DISTRICT LAWS. 

Theodore W. Noyes, Chairman. R. Ross Perry, Chairman. 

DELEGATES TO NATIONAL BOARD OF TRADE. 

A. P. Fardon, F. L. Moore, S. W. Woodward, George Truesdell. 



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